Australia’s Best Greyhounds Gather For The Melbourne Cup

Jason Thompson will launch an eight dog assault on the Schweppes Melbourne Cup heats at Sandown Park this Thursday night.

Thompson won the Melbourne Cup with Light Of Fire in 1994, however his talented kennel stars will need to overcome some awkward box draws if he is to repeat that success.
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Shootout Has The Big Guns Aiming At $20,000

Four of Australia’s fastest greyhound gunslingers will take aim at the $20,000 winner-takes-all Group 3 Shootout at Sandown Park this Thursday night.
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Chinatown Lad Scratched From Sir John Dillon Final

Dual Group 1 one winning stayer Chinatown Lad has been scratched from the final of the $36,000 Group 2 Sir John Dillon Memorial after succumbing to a tail injury.
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Rob Britton Magic In Sir John Dillon Memorial Heats

Robert Britton enhanced his reputation as a master conditioner of stayers when Kulu Spirit ($4.30) and Gunnadoo Magic ($3.60) each won heats of the Group 2 Sir John Dillon Memorial at Sandown.
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Bill Collins Memorial Race At Sandown Tonight An Absolute Cracker

Trew Millions will resume from a month’s lay off in tonight’s $14,500 Bill Collins Memorial at Sandown Park. The superbly bred six-time Group finalist will have to overcome box 6 and several in-form chasers if he is to add to his $123,610 in prizemoney.
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Others Quoted Steals Sydney Cup

John Mooney further endorsed his reputation as one of the countries finest trainers of stayers, when Other Quoted revived ememories of Best Quoted and her dam Last Quoted by winning the 2008 Sydeny Cup.
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Chinatown Lad Is Australia’s Best Stayer

On a night when we were supposed to crown Australia’s National Distance Champion as Australia’s best stayer; Chinatown Lad stole the limelight and Mantra Lad’s thunder in a devastating record breaking performance in the very first race of the night.
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Sandown Launch “The Dawson”

The Sandown Greyhound Racing Club today announced the latest addition to its Group race calendar, the $58,000 Group 3 ‘The Dawson’, in conjunction with recent changes to the long-term structure of the Victorian metro calendar.
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National Distance Championship Preview

As soon as Miagi returned to the somewhere near his best form in winning a heat of the NSW Rapidvite National Distance Championship, the stage was set for the him to claim the title of Australia’s best stayer. What wasn’t expected was the quality of the field that he’ll race against to claim that title. Australian Racing Greyhound takes an indepth look at each runner in tomorrow nights Group 1 Rapidvite National Distance Championship Final.
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Fallen Zorro Rewrites Record Books

Tasmanian star stayers, Chinatown Lad and Fallen Zorro have taken Australian staying races by storm over the past four months filling the quinella in the previous two group one races, the Sandown Cup and Albion Park Gold Cup, with Chinatown Lad victorious on both occasions.
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Mantra Lad & Rebel Angel Complete Vic Nat Four

Victoria’s ‘fab four’ in the 2008 Group 1 Rapidvite National Sprint Championship (520m) and Rapidvite National Distance Championship (720m) grand finals, to be held at Wentworth Park in Sydney on Saturday, August 30, are All Caution and Mogambo (NSC) and Mantra Lad and Rebel Angel (NDC).
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Impressive Line Up For Vic Distance Nat Champs

Victoria’s select stayers clash in two state heats of the Rapidvite National Distance Championship (725m) at The Meadows on Saturday night.
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Sky Hazzard Makes An AWM Double

One year on and many things can change certainly finalists in Group race final usual change from year to year, however in the staying ranks class will prevail and if a stayer can maintain their form plus fitness they often are seen in the same races in consecutive years.
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Vic Metro Clubs Launch Mini Carnivals Stakes Increases

An innovative five-year Group Racing proposal put together by Victoria’s two metropolitan clubs has been approved by the Board of Greyhound Racing Victoria. As a result the Melbourne Greyhound Racing Association (MGRA), which races at The Meadows, and the Sandown Greyhound Racing Club will each introduce annual mini-carnivals.
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Chinatown Lad Will Win Gold Cup

Superstar stayer Chinatown Lad demolished his Albion Park Gold Cup heat rivals on Thursday night running 42.06 on a rain affected track.

The son of Lilli Pilli Lad-Chinatown Babe scored by 16 and three-quarter lengths over Misty Bear with a half length to Fast Dream in third.
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Tasmanians Quinella The Sandown Cup

Tasmanian duo Chinatown Lad and Fallen Zorro gave trainer Shane Whitney his biggest thrill in racing when his star litter-mates quinellaed the $86,000 Group 1 Radio Sport 927 Sandown Cup at Sandown Park tonight.
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